Farmer's Creed by Christopher Woods

Author:Christopher Woods [Woods, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blood Moon Press
Published: 2019-10-21T22:00:00+00:00

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Chapter 28

“So where’s this Agent they picked up on the road?”

“Infirmary,” Pop said.

“You talked to him?” I asked.

“Yeah. He’s got some connections down in the Gulf. Might get a line on some fuel for the machinery.”

“That would be nice. We’re going to need it. This is a lot bigger project than I imagined.”

“Bigger than any of us imagined. How’d the deal with those clowns go?”

“Not as well as I would have liked. Got all the slaves, but had to pay a heavy price for ‘em.”

“That’s what Phil was saying. We need an edge. I want to discourage slavery, not encourage it.” He sat down in the rocking chair on the porch.

“Not many choices left to us out there,” I said. “Pay the price, leave them behind, or have a shootout with close to fifty Agents and over a hundred people imprinted with a psychopath.”

“Psychopath?”

“Talk to Doc about the people we brought in. They’ve been treated pretty roughly. I’ve had a few conversations with the folks on the way back, and I have no reservations about the word. They’re psychopaths.”

“What are we going to do about ‘em?”

“Honestly, I don’t know. We fight ‘em, we lose. You’ve seen what Jimmy can do. There’s fifty of them. I think, based the reactions of the guy we talked to, Jimmy’s a lot tougher than any of them one on one. But fifty to one?”

“I see your point,” he said, “but we have to do something.”

“I have an idea,” I said, “but I need to go out to the dam and talk to Spriggs before I get too far into it.”

“We need something.”

“I know,” I said. “Is the next caravan loaded?”

“Yep. Thank God for all those horses Eric told us about when he showed up.”

“At least we didn’t have to use that damn pony to breed the mares.”

“No doubt.” He laughed. “Three horse ranches close enough to get to fairly quickly. Eric’s worked several out west of us, too. I sent him out with Grady and twenty others to check those. Hopefully they come back riding new stock.”

“Nice,” I said. “I don’t know why we didn’t think of it earlier.”

“Had a lot of other things on our minds,” he answered. “Didn’t take long to see the worth in scouting the ranches.”

“True. Gary took a lot of satisfaction in tearing down that contraption you made out by the barn.”

“I don’t know why he was so happy to help tear it down when he refused to help build it.”

“Probably because you tried to get him to ‘milk’ the pony.”

“We needed more horses.”

I laughed. “We got more without creating any more rainbow-haired ponies.”

“I noticed someone dyed Wandrey again,” he said. “All the things we lost when the world fell, and they’re still finding hair dye.”

“I know, right? Traded two MREs for five cases of dye in one of the zones. Thought they might be running low.”

“You’re shittin’ me aren’t you?”

“It was a family, and they didn’t have anything else to trade.”

“Thought you wanted to set it all on fire,” he said.

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